Tuḥfat al-ʻirfān
Contributors: Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1720
Place of publication: Turkey
Language: ota
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Turkish poetry; Turkish Manuscripts
Other titles: Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān
Description: A commentary on 100 verses of Tuḥfe-yi Şāhidī with discussion of poetic meter, lexicons and explanation of difficulties. A long preface by Muḥammed Muṣīb al-șehir bi-Narḫīzāde in which he describes his travels around the Eastern Mediterranean and how he came to find out about Şāhidī and his poetry introduces the work.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 3r).

Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; catchwords every verso.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red, including headings and overlining.

Origin: Copy completed in the mid-18th century, probably in Turkey. The preface indicates that the writer left Istanbul in 1133 A.H. (1720 or 1721 CE) to go to Cyprus and he wrote the work there (f. 1v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 385.

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Ottoman Turkish.

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with the flap missing; blind stamped central mandorla and blind tooled frame.

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